UA has conducted a groundbreaking study on the brain patterns of teenagers affected with autism.
Crimson White – Feb. 21
Mark Klinger, associate professor of psychology, and Laura Klinger, an associate psychology professor, worked with members of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, to discover changes in brain patterns in adolescents with the disorder. In the study, males between 13 and 21 from Alabama had their brain activation measured while playing video games that stimulated social interaction. These games were actual competitive games where opponents were also measured for brain activity…Mark said the research is groundbreaking because of the ability researchers have to see the results not only on a computer screen, but also to visualize it while it happens…
Associate VP is named
Crimson White – Feb. 21
Karen Meshad Baldwin plans to contribute to the “Our Students, Our Future” campaign as the new associate vice president for advancement at the Capstone. She came into office on Feb. 15…
UA Professor of marketing dies at 82
Crimson White – Feb. 21
Morris L. Mayer, a marketing professor with decades of service to the University and the community, died Friday, Feb. 15 at DCH Medical Center in Tuscaloosa after a lengthy battle with failing health and Parkinson’s disease. He was 82. Mayer was professor emeritus of retail marketing and former head of the UA department of marketing. He worked at the Capstone for 48 years and co-authored three textbooks on retailing, among several other publications…UA President Robert Witt said in a statement that he thought Morris was a man of great character and who had a sense of service to others. “He was a man of great character whose sense of service to others guided his every moment,” Witt said. “His contributions to the retailing and marketing fields are truly legendary, as are his contributions to students, the University and the community.”…
Alabama’s white colleges fuel big increases in black students
Mobile Register – Feb. 21
The number of black students in Alabama’s colleges and universities is at an all-time high, but the dramatic gains have mostly filled the rolls of traditionally white schools — not historically black ones, a Press-Register analysis shows… In 2006, blacks accounted for 11.1 percent of the Tuscaloosa university’s student body. “That’s just a huge increase,” Slater said, “short of the black percentage of the state population, but still a lot of progress.” … Mary Spiegel, executive director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Alabama, lauded the efforts of schools statewide to increase the number of black college students. “It says something about the state and what the institutions within the state are doing,” Spiegel said. “We’re giving a good education to all the students … and they have access to higher education.”…The University of Alabama has college fairs that emphasize minority recruitment and student outreach teams made up of minority students…